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Table 1 Semi-structured Research Questionnaire

From: Harvesting Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. in a western Amazon rural community: local ecological knowledge and meaning to “nut-crackers”

Code

Description

ID

Interviewee name

GNDER

Gender

ORIGIN

Origin

AGE

Age

HOME

Local home

TIME-HOM

Time home (years)

EDU

Schooling level

PROFESS

Profession?

TIME-ACT

Time harvesting? (years)

OTHER

Other economic activities ?

ACTIV

What activity?

QTD-OTH-ACT

Number of other activity besides harvesting

INCOME

Family income (minimum wage)

INCOME_ACT

Income only from harvesting (% INCOME)

INCOME-OTHER

Besides harvesting income, is there another?

INCOME-OTHER

Origin of other income?

INCOME_ORI_AMT

Amount of income other than harvesting?

 

From an economic point of view, are you satisfied with harvesting?

SATISFIED

SIGNIFICANCE

What does harvesting signify to you?

REASONS

Why did you chose harvesting?

REASONS_QTD

Number of reasons

IMPORTANT

Why is the forest important to you?

ALONE

Do you harvest alone?

ALONE_WHO

Who accompanies you?

PERIOD

Period of harvesting?

CHANGE

Have observed changes in fruit production?

CHANES-WHAT

What changes have been observed?

CHANGES_QTD

Quantity of changes observed

CHANGES_ENV

Noticed environmental changes that could hurt harvesting?

CHANGES_ENV_WHT

What changes?

CHANGES_ENV_QTD

Quantity of environmental changes observed

CONSERVATION

What contributes to the conservation of Brazil nut trees?

CONSERVATION_QTD

Quantity of contributions observed

ANIMALS

Which animals eat Brazil nuts?

ANIMAIS_QTD

Quantity of animals observed

DIFFICULTY

What difficulties encountered while harvesting?

DIFIFICULTY_WHT

What are those difficulties?

RISKS

Is there a risk of not having nuts in the future?

RISKS_WHT

What are those risks?

RISKS_QTD

Quantity of perceived risks

LEARNED

With whom did you learn about harvesting?

FAMILY

Besides you, does anyone else in your family harvest?

FAMILY_WHO

Who in your family harvests?

CULTURE

In your opinion, have there been cultural changes in collecting?

CULTURE_WHT

What were those cultural changes?

PRODUTIVE

PRODUTIVE_QTD

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USES

Uses

  1. The questions shaded in gray were analyzed quantitatively, as they deal with structural questions. The other questions (in white) were analyzed qualitatively, as they deal with non-structural questions. The questions with the _QTD suffix were created by the researchers and concern proxy variables of ecological knowledge, and refer to the quantity of items that the individual mentioned in that particular question. For example, in the variable ANIMALS, if the individual identified an arara, parrot, monkey, deer, and a pig eating Brazil nut fruits, the value (score) of the variable ANIMALS_QTD would be 5